m1bjr

Unfortunately John, the public after hearing the same lines trotted out have run out of patience.

The only logical outcome long term is vigilantism - take a look at South Africa now.

Sad for sure, but we are well down that slippery slope already I fear.

I mentioned before in statements that the exact piece of road I was hit on has ANPR.
Part of the Bristol security initiative to target exactly these problems.

For some reason the data can't be used to place the vehicle at the scene.

And you probably wonder why we (the tax paying public) are fecking annoyed at the waste of our public money on crap like this?

Nothing makes much sense any more... Policing is becoming a 'Business' and thats the be all and end all.

Money.
From the honest citizen.

John57

I understand your frustration ..... I really do - I am just not able to comment here in a way you would appreciate without getting into a large amount of trouble..... which is frustrating .... I could sum it all up in one sentence .... but can't

m1bjr

Yeah, I know John.
You have seen me about on here for a while now I would guess, so I hope you know I don't take or give anything personally.
In spite of my often acidic or 'witty' comments.

(I wouldn't have your job for the world.
I simply couldn't do it, at least not for long anyhow.)

These problems are massive, and won't be solved by the rank and file.

integra_man

Very sorry to hear about this. It is heartbreaking and it makes you curse the society we live in.

Same happened to me at the turn of the year on a supermarket car park. Thankfully, a passer-by witnessed the incident and waited around to tell me.

I reported the driver but the police dropped it as soon as she admitted it. And they wonder why 'middle class crime' is on the up.

jonner

Hope you get it sorted.....

OldDogmeat

I like it, proper gum shoe

TRW

Its worth a try to see if you can turn anything up.

Still had all the usual hassles with getting the money out of their insurer. In the end I had to tell the insurer to either pay up or I was going to initiate a claim in court against their client, slammed the phone down and then I got a call back a short time later telling me they would pay out.

Its sad but in threating legal action against both the client (Hotpoint) initially and then again when the insurer wasnt playing ball it moved things on extremely quickly.

I will still never buy a hotpoint appliance ever again!

MB

TRW, good outcome in the end, a good and rare story unfortunately. I can't understand these ****s. Especially in a company van where you are covered. I'd just love to have a conversation with the person involved, and try and make them feel really low, but there's no helping some people.

I bet if you did a public poll on who would fess up if they bashed another car, it would be less than 20%.

Steve, been meaning to ask how your incident was going. Not well by the sounds of it. Amazing really.

jimpom23

This happened to an old Gti6 I had, came back and the rear quarter was crumpled and the boot was actually pierced.. I was absolutely fuming, no note...

Knocked on a few doors which were old dears and one said she heard a bang and saw a white lorry/van and thought he used the payphone at the bottom of the road - to be fair plod looked into the call log with BT from that payphone but came up with nothing..

Worst thing is, I rung the insurance company to find out what the next steps were - i.e. given there is no 3rd party to claim from how would it affect NCB etc... decided not to go through insurance and told them this only for them to say it will still be held on the claims database and I would have to disclose it as a 'No Claim' everytime I went for a quote - I have been paying extra on my insurance for the last 5yrs because of a phonecall to the insurance company that I never followed up...

TRW

I didnt mention anything to my insurance company, i think there is some kind of requirement to report it for 'information only' but i dont think i will bother, they will only put the premium up